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Maybe this doesn’t happen to everyone, but it surely does happen to a lot of us. One day, you get your dream job, or your dream partner, or some very good opportunity, and sadly, things start to happen to you, and you can't perform at your best. The worst possible outcome is that you get fired or lose the opportunity; hopefully, something less bad happens, and you can learn from the experience and not let your sabotaging urges win.

Employee gets fired from his dream job because took 5 holidays in his first month and wonders if there's anything he can do to reverse it: 'It’s just a bad month. But I don’t know what to do. They are saying this will be a final decision.'

Lunch Break Work Memes

'Sorry, I'm on break': A brown bag of tasty lunch time memes to enjoy before heading back to work

Elna McHilderson

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'She lied to me multiple times': Employee lies about 'family emergency' when needing coverage, coworker refuses to cover them

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Employer demands 24/7 access to employee's location for $16/hr job: 'There is no legitimate reason for them to know where I am'

Back when I was in high school, I was terrified of something like this happening to me, the classical story: the boys make a bet to see who can ask the ugliest girl out, and it turns out I’m the oblivious girl thinking she has a chance with the high school heartthrob. Well, this story doesn’t involve that kind of heartbreak, but it does involve someone giving a long, controlled performance to get the information they wanted.

Employee pretends to be friendly with coworker for months only to extract important information about the workplace: 'The friendship part might have been real at first, but somewhere along the way it started feeling more like a project to him'

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When we pay for something, the transaction is clear: I give you money, you give me what I paid for. With gifts, something more elusive happens: For some people, receiving something as a gift creates a sense of entitlement that masks an underlying dependence on what was given to them. Some people defend themselves from that feeling of dependency by treating what was given to them as something they were owed.

University library employee reports increasing student entitlement towards loaned laptops since 2020: 'I've had more than one patron demand I get them a different laptop because the one I grabbed from the cabinet didn't look nice enough'

A female employee holds papers while sitting outside a glass-walled office, with two people discussing something over a desk inside

The Reasons Why Good Employees Will Leave Jobs Quickly

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'It's Friday, do you know where your employees are?': A beautiful half-day of "Summer Friday" memes to wrap up the work week

Elna McHilderson

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Dance studio boss demands 24/7 availability from her staff, forces employee to constantly cover last-minute shifts

When anonymity turns to exposure I just found out there is a rarely used literal antonym for anonymity, it’s nonymity, which means ‘with a name’, of course. So what this company conducted was probably a ‘nonymous’ survey, only they forgot to disclose it. I’ve had the temptation to be really honest in one or two of those surveys, but I always held back because there weren’t many people being surveyed, and it would be really easy to discover who wrote what. Of course, it would all be perfect if w…

Employee finds out his anonymous feedback was never anonymous and is being called to have a personal meeting with the manager: 'It turned upside down when my manager called me out in front of the entire team and mocked about the review i gave'

Anyone who has worked at customer service knows this: there is always a customer who arrives at the very last minute, and then makes you wait for him to finish, and you end up closing the store 45 minutes late because you aren’t allowed to say you need him to go asap so you can close. I genuinely don’t know where these people come from, nor why they don’t seem to have any empathy or understanding of the phrase ‘we’re closing’.

Entitled customer demands employee to open the store even though he was warned it closed in five minutes: 'Like do some customers need to be hand held now or what?'

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Laughs for Witty Office Clowns and Funny Hardworking Employees in Need of Some Workplace Humor

Elna McHilderson

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Boss praises employee as a top performer but keeps him out of key meetings because he supposedly lacks industry knowledge: ‘Just read more’

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Company forces employee to cancel approved PTO after policy change: 'They may now try to fire me if I don’t play along'

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‘I love my job, I love my job…’: Skip this 9-to-5 mantra, it's time to clock into work memes

Elna McHilderson

Employee on way work who spotted dog being dumped by roadside with food blanket stops save pupper, but unable care for her himself finds loving furever home extended family: ‘My dad step-mom met him fell hard for him.’ | thumbnail includes one image which shows a brown and white pit bull drinking from bowl of water on ground next to food bowl ‘“If you dumped your sweet boy in the Nations today, he’s safe, dry, warm and fed with better food than what you left.”’

Employee on way to work who spotted dog being dumped by roadside with food and blanket stops to save pupper, but unable to care for her himself finds loving furever home with extended family: ‘My dad and step-mom met him and fell hard for him.’